Do you think the decorators who do the lovely borders and flowers ever see what happens to their great work when amateurs write on their cakes? I guess not since I've not seen any news headlines like "Bakery worker beaten and bludgeoned with sheet pan and offset spatula by irate co-worker". Film at 11.

I know--it's Christi's mom calling--you know how when you don't answer right away, mom will call you in a louder voice, and it sounds like capital letters? They could have written one more call, going from the nice gentle italics, to the CAPITALS, to CAPITALS with exclamation points!!!! Hey, Christi, it's your BIRTHDAY!!!! ANSWER ME YOUNG LADY!!!!

There is just NO excuse for this at a bakery unless you do not order your cake in advance. If the decorator isn't in and a clerk says "sure lady, I'l try 'an write it... WRECK!If you order in advance and ya get that, I'd make them scrape it off and fix it! Or give it to you free or 1/2 price!! with a follow up to the owner asap!

Customer: Hi, I'd like a 'happy birthday' cake, please. And can you put my daughter's name on it?

Counterperson: Certainly, just fill out this form showing exactly what you want on the cake, and be sure to write clearly so the decorator can read it.

Customer assumes a "Happy Birthday" cake says happy birthday on it when it comes from the magic cake factory, and she doesn't want it to say "Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Christi" so just writes her daughter's name. She frowns at her handwriting and then prints it again underneath to be sure they can read it.

It's actually a hard problem to figure out what you should write on the form to achieve the cake results you want. I mean you have to assume the decorators are alien robots with no common sense.

What on earth?!! The first Christi is spelled differently than the "underneat that" one - or did they also forget to dot the "i"? It makes me sad for the future of the planet - these people are being paid for these! Clearly they need some of - " this cake may be monitored for quality assurance purposes"!! Hey, that's a great job idea...

It's funny to see people try to explain this and come up with interesting stories. I submitted this cake. I was a high school English teacher and one of my coworkers was getting married. Someone in our department held a work wedding shower and called to order this cake. She told the person she wanted it to say "Congratulations Christy"....and this is what we got. A cursive and a print Christi....

I'm a cashier at a grocery store. The cake on today's post bears a striking resemblance to a cake I saw today from the grocery store's bakery. Beautiful flowers and colors, fantastic borders, the works. And the inscription?

"(Ryan)Brina!!"

The lady purchasing it informed me that it was supposed to read: "Happy Birthday, Ryan and Brian!"

Maybe the Christie cake is a similar situation? Regardless, poor Kristy doubtless has the same problem I do: the commonly misspelled name.

Ah learning to spell on a cake.. I would say the roses at least look nice if not the writing. Wonder who allowed this to go out of the bakery lol. And why did they buy it? I can only hope that it tasted good. It just screams EAT ME CHRISTI! I couldn't resist lol.

Kim C., that's so funny. And they didn't spell it correctly either time! Now I'm guessing that the person started with the C in congratulations and then skipped down to write hristi instead of ongratulations, then looks back at the form to write the second word. It doesn't explain what happened to proofreading, the Y or common sense, though.

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